mz250ts schrieb am 19. März 2003 14:33
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> deswegen ist Sie ja auch für Frieden, und dieser macht diesen
> Krieg eben notwendig
Klingt fast wie:
<Quote>
Logic of War?
by Peter Freundlich
Alright, let me see if I understand the logic of this correctly.
We are going to ignore the United Nations, in order to make
clear to Saddam Hussein, that the United Nations cannot be ignored.
We're going to wage war to preserve the UN's ability to avert war.
The paramount principle is that the UN's word must be taken
seriously, and if we have to subvert its word to guarantee that it
is, then by gum, we will. Peace is too important not to take up
arms to defend.
Am I getting this right?
Further, if the only way to bring democracy to Iraq is to vitiate
the democracy of the Security Council, then we are honor bound to
do that too, because democracy as we define it is too important to
be stopped by a little thing like democracy as they define it.
Also, in dealing with a man who brooks no dissension at home, we
cannot afford dissension among ourselves. We must speak with one
voice, against Saddam Hussein's failure to allow opposing voices
to be heard.
We are sending our gathered might to the Persian Gulf to make the
point that might does not make right (as Saddam Hussein seems to
think it does). And we are twisting the arms of the opposition
until it agrees to let us to oust a regime that twists the arms of
the opposition. We cannot leave in power a dictator who ignores
his own people, and if our people, and people elsewhere in the
world fail to understand that, then we have no choice but to
ignore them.
Listen, don't misunderstand, I think it is a good thing that the
members of the Bush administration seem to have been reading Lewis
Carroll. I only wish someone had pointed out that "Alice in
Wonderland," and "Through the Looking Glass," are meditations on
paradox, and puzzle, and illogic, and on the strangeness of things,
not templates for foreign policy.
It is amusing for the Mad Hatter to say something like, "we must
make war on him because he is a threat to peace," but not amusing
for someone who commands an army to say that.
As a collector of laughable arguments I'd be enjoying all this if
it weren't for the fact I know, we all know, lives are going to be
lost in what amounts to be a freak, circular reasoning accident.
</quote>
Gruß,
Carsten
(...)
> deswegen ist Sie ja auch für Frieden, und dieser macht diesen
> Krieg eben notwendig
Klingt fast wie:
<Quote>
Logic of War?
by Peter Freundlich
Alright, let me see if I understand the logic of this correctly.
We are going to ignore the United Nations, in order to make
clear to Saddam Hussein, that the United Nations cannot be ignored.
We're going to wage war to preserve the UN's ability to avert war.
The paramount principle is that the UN's word must be taken
seriously, and if we have to subvert its word to guarantee that it
is, then by gum, we will. Peace is too important not to take up
arms to defend.
Am I getting this right?
Further, if the only way to bring democracy to Iraq is to vitiate
the democracy of the Security Council, then we are honor bound to
do that too, because democracy as we define it is too important to
be stopped by a little thing like democracy as they define it.
Also, in dealing with a man who brooks no dissension at home, we
cannot afford dissension among ourselves. We must speak with one
voice, against Saddam Hussein's failure to allow opposing voices
to be heard.
We are sending our gathered might to the Persian Gulf to make the
point that might does not make right (as Saddam Hussein seems to
think it does). And we are twisting the arms of the opposition
until it agrees to let us to oust a regime that twists the arms of
the opposition. We cannot leave in power a dictator who ignores
his own people, and if our people, and people elsewhere in the
world fail to understand that, then we have no choice but to
ignore them.
Listen, don't misunderstand, I think it is a good thing that the
members of the Bush administration seem to have been reading Lewis
Carroll. I only wish someone had pointed out that "Alice in
Wonderland," and "Through the Looking Glass," are meditations on
paradox, and puzzle, and illogic, and on the strangeness of things,
not templates for foreign policy.
It is amusing for the Mad Hatter to say something like, "we must
make war on him because he is a threat to peace," but not amusing
for someone who commands an army to say that.
As a collector of laughable arguments I'd be enjoying all this if
it weren't for the fact I know, we all know, lives are going to be
lost in what amounts to be a freak, circular reasoning accident.
</quote>
Gruß,
Carsten